Graham and her husband built up the Washington Post empire by buying Newsweek Magazine, an international news service, and several radio and television stations.

After her husband's death in 1963, Graham became president of the Washington Post Company until 1973 when she became chairman of its Board of Directors.

A former member of the Overseers Visiting Committee to the Kennedy School of Government, Graham is also a trustee of George Washington University.

Meyer Schapiro has for most of his career been known as one of the century's leading art historians. In addition, his criticism has brought new dimensions to the study of art by integrating political, psychological and biogical theory with traditional methods of art analysis.

Schapiro has published eight books, including seminal works on Cezanne and Van Gogh, but his more common forum has been the essay. He has written more that 180 essays of art criticism, which have appeared in a wide variety of journals.

Long an active force in New York intellectual circles, Schapiro has found many influences outside the realm of traditional art criticism. His writing is steeped in the work of important social scientists, must notably Marx and Freud.

A member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1928 to 1973, Schapiro has also served as visiting professor at several universities, including. Oxford and the University of London. In 1966 and 1967, he gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, discussing the French Romanesque style.

Born in Shavly, Lithuania in 1904, the scholar emigrated to the United States in 1907. He earned his PhD from Columbia in 1931, and became a full professor there in 1952. Upon his retirement in 1973, he was awarded the Art Dealers Association of America Award for excellence from art history. He has also served as a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Much of Schapiro's work has focused on modern art, but is celebrated for its incorporation of the study of art of other periods--notably early Christian and Medieval. Among his most famous works are a series of essays on Cezanne's apples, to which the art historian affixes various social and psychological meanings. In one essay, Schapiro calls the fruit examples of "displaced erotic interest."

Most recently, Schapiro has been working on compiling, collections of his critical essays for publication in several volumes. As a critic, he has always stressed the importance of applying external factors to the study of art. "Everything that interests me is part of the picture," he one said.

A 1979 Newsweek article on Schapiro hailed his as the 20th century's leading art critic, and an important influence on every student of art in his time. "To call Meyer Schapiro an art historian is a little like calling Marx an Economist," the Article stated. "It's true, but you wouldn't want to leave it at that."

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Victor F. Weisskopf once said "Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Throughout his career as a prominent theoretical nuclear physicist, Weisskopf has sought to balance the exploding field of scientific knowledge with a basic sense of humanity.

Born in Vienna in 1908, Weisskopf received his PhD at The University of Gottingen, Germany, in 1931 and conducted postgraduate research in Denmark and Switzerland. In 1937 he emigrated to the United States, a refugee of Nazi oppression.

Weisskopf taught physics at The University of Rochester before joining the secret Manhattan Project during World War II, which developed the first atomic bomb. He served as the leader of the project's theory division.